Unusual mucocutaneous infections in immunosuppressed patients with leukemia

Dreizen, S.; McCredie, K.B.; Bodey, G.P.; Dreizen, S; McCredie, K.B; Bodey, G.P

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Unusual mucocutaneous infections in immunosuppressed patients with leukemia

Dreizen, S.; McCredie, K.B.; Bodey, G.P.

Postgraduate Medicine 66(3): 131-4 137-41

1979

ISSN/ISBN: 0032-5481

PMID: 471847

Document Number: 141467

Patients with leukemia may become severely infected with usually nonpathogenic organisms and are also prey to infection in unusual sites and by unusual organisms.. Every organism isolated from such a patient must be considered a potential enemy, regardless of its pathogenic reputation, and evidence of infection must be sought.